2 hrs ago | KNUS-AM Aurora
Arellano Felix drug cartel leader pleads guilty
The last of the brothers accused of creating an infamous Mexican drug cartel pleaded guilty Friday to helping send hundreds of millions of dollars in proceeds from the United States, marking one of the final milestones in an investigation that began nearly two decades ago.
2 hrs ago | Canada.com
Former West Van police officer found stabbed to death in Mexico
A retired West Vancouver police officer has been stabbed to death in Mexico, as two other Metro Vancouver families issue pleas for help to find relatives missing in the popular holiday destination.
2 hrs ago | The Miami Herald
Arellano Felix drug cartel figure pleads guilty
This image provided by Mexico's Federal Public Safety Department, SSP, shows wanted drug-kingpin Eduardo Arellano Felix, leader of the Tijuana-based Arellano Felix cartel, who is expected to plead guilty to federal charges Friday, May 24, 2013.
3 hrs ago | The Raw Story
Mexico is home to the world's second-largest obese population
Artemio Martinez balanced his corpulent frame on a stool in a Mexico City street taco stand, downing a sweet soda and eating a final pork-filled corn tortilla.
3 hrs ago | Hispanically Speaking
Four Mexican Zeta Narcos Plead Guilty to Murder, Attempted Murder of U.S. Agents
Four Mexican cartel members of the vicious Los Zetas have pleaded guilty in U.S. Court to the murder and attempted murder of U.S. federal agents working in Mexico.
4 hrs ago | Houston Press
Chef Chat, Part 3: Ruben Ortega of Hugo's and the Traditional Foods of Mexico
This week, we've been chatting with Ruben Ortega of Hugo's and Backstreet Cafe .
8 hrs ago | FiveThirtyEight
Latitude: For Mexican Government, Drug-Crime Figures are Political Tool
There are meetings that should not take place. That was my first thought when I talked last week to the Mexican officials who get together every Tuesday to figure out how many people have been killed in the country's drug war.
12 hrs ago | MediLexicon
Many Mexican Young Adults Have A Genetic Predisposition To Obesity
As many as 35 percent of Mexican young adults may have a genetic predisposition for obesity, said a University of Illinois scientist who conducted a study at the Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potos .
Son of Malcolm Shabazz funeralized after fatal assault in Mexico City
Funeral services were held Friday, May 17, for Malcolm Lateef Shabazz, the grandson of human rights leader Malcolm X. He was 28 years old.
5,000 cave paintings discovered in Mexico
Archaeologists have found nearly 5,000 cave paintings made by hunter-gatherers in a northeastern Mexico mountain range where pre-Hispanic groups were not known to have existed.
Inbursa Drops as CaixaBank Weighs 10% Sale: Mexico City Mover
Grupo Financiero Inbursa SAB , the financial-services firm controlled by billionaire Carlos Slim , fell the most in 21 months after CaixaBank SA said it may sell half of its 20 percent stake.
SF Officials, Advocates Take a Ride on BRT and Bike-Share in Mexico City
Supervisor Scott Wiener with the San Francisco delegation at a BRT station platform in Mexico City last week.
Mexico City Hosts the 1st Chili Pepper, Sauces and Mortars Festival
Chili peppers and sauces will take center stage at a festival being held this week in Mexico City, where the spicy plant, one of the pillars of Mexican cuisine, will be honored, organizers said.
Southlake Murder Victim Was Drug Cartel Attorney
The man gunned down execution-style at the Southlake Town Center Wednesday was an attorney linked to a major Mexican drug cartel who had been living with his family in a secure, gated community with his wife and at least one child.
Commander of drug cartel guilty of shooting ICE agents in Mexico
Julian Zapata Espinoza, a cell commander of the brutal Los Zetas drug cartel, pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in the District in the killing of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Jaime Zapata and the attempted murder of his partner, ICE Agent Victor Avila, during a February 2011 daylight ambush on a major highway 250 miles ... (more)
Van falls into ravine in Mexico, nine killed
Nine people were killed Wednesday when a van carrying at least 15 people fell into a ravine near Tianguistengo, Mexico, authorities said.
Like many Americans, I've heard about the "Fast and Furious" scandal in which our own ATF was shown to be guilty and corrupt of supplying guns that ended up in the hands of the drug cartels.
Bob Schulman: Tales of Old Mexico: Loreto Takes Root in the Land of Queen Calafia
"Know, that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California...and it is peopled by black women, without any man among them, for they live in the manner of Amazons." So wrote Spanish author Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo of a fictional paradise governed by a black super-woman he called Queen Calafia in his 1510 novel, Adventures of ... (more)
Almost certainly the longest and certainly the most geographically ambitious film festival in the world, Mexico's Ambulante runs for 12 weeks and involves stopovers in 12 Mexican states, from Baja California in the north to Oaxaca in the south.